"I think, then, that the chief task of philosophy is to justify
this way of reason and to defend practical and political reason against
the domination of technology based science.
That is the point of philosophical hermeneutic. It corrects the peculiar
falsehood of modern consciousness: the idolatry of scientific method and
the anonymous authority of the sciences and it vindicates again the noblest
task of the citizen - decision-making according to one's own responsibility
- instead of conceding that task to the expert. In this
respect, hermeneutic philosophy is the heir of the older tradition of practical
philosophy." - Gadamer